K-Shop

2016

Crime / Horror / Thriller

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 75% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 2082 2.1K

Plot summary

After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.


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Reviewed by Coventry 7 / 10

Binge-drinking, binge-killing and … binge-kebab-munching!

Next to being many other things, "K-Shop" first and foremost is an effectively harsh and confronting satire on England, and particularly how its culture and dignity completely deteriorated in the past two decades. It's abundantly clear that the film fiercely denounces the disgusting (but sadly very realistic and not exaggerated) British binge-drinking tragedies that occur every weekend, as well as all the vulgarities and embarrassment linked to them. But the obviously very cynical and embittered writer/director Dan Pringle simultaneously also criticizes many other shameless vices, most notably how disrespectfully English people treat the immigrants and how they stupidly idolize losers that basically didn't accomplish anything except for appearing in the media (like, for example, the winner of the "Big Brother" reality-TV show). But "K-Shop" is certainly also an insane black comedy and a gorier-than- expected horror/thriller, dealing with a variety of interesting themes including cannibalism, vigilante and modern day Sweeney Todd! Especially considering this is Dan Pringle's long- feature film debut, "K-Shop" definitely exceeded my expectations and – although it's about 30-40 minutes too long – I would label it as one of the more successful and recommendable horror movies to emerge from Britain in the last five years.

Salah Sabir is of Turkish descent, but born and raised in England and a successful student at a prominent London university. He has to interrupt his studies to return home to Bournemouth where his father, a devoted and ambitious kebab shop owner, suffers with his health. Before he properly recovers, Salah's father is killed following a banal dispute with a group of drunken party animals. Salah decides to stay a while and temporarily run the shop, but his contempt and oppressed hatred towards these idiotic binge-drinkers quickly escalates. He accidentally kills an aggressive customer in his deep fryer and sees no other option but to process the cadaver into the special kebab meat recipe! The K-shop becomes a huge hit in the late-night life, and since there are always more than enough imbecilic drunkards entering the shop to irritate Salah, he never runs out of meat… Salah runs the shop for 7 great years, but then he gradually gets into trouble as the number of missing person cases is immense and several people in his surrounding grow suspicious. In case it was Dan Pringle's primary objective to make a social statement, then … well … he certainly made his point! I'm neither a binge-drinker nor an Englishman, but I felt a surrogate sense of shame throughout nearly the entire movie. There's a massive amount of (stock-) footage depicting people drinking, fighting, misbehaving, vomiting, urinating and even fornicating in public. It's nasty and marginal, but you know it's the truth and that makes it rather depressing. The film isn't entirely flawless, neither. Two hours is definitely too long for this type of movie and it feels as if Pringle easily could have cut or shrunk several sequences and even entire sub plots. The irrelevant and slowly developing romance between Salah and the charming Sarah shouldn't have been included, for instance, especially since it never really goes anywhere concrete, and also the sub plot with his alert weekend helper Malik is quite redundant. The acting performances are terrific and the soundtrack contains a large number of exhilarating and inciting music.

Reviewed by FlashCallahan 7 / 10

Chilli Sauce?.....

A kebab shop owner's son becomes a creative vigilante as he takes grisly revenge on the violent youths who killed his father.....

K-shop's cover sleeve stated that it was the most anticipated horror of 2017. Narrow it down a little to the most awaited Sweeny Todd-esque film set in Bournemouth of 2017, then your on way.

The film centres around Salah, and him inheriting his families fast food shop after his dad dies. Because there were loads of stereotypical drunk Brits shouting at him at the time, Salah decides to kill anyone who appears out of sorts when they enter his place.

Because this would obviously make up for his fathers untimely death. The first act is pretty intense, as we see what Salah is doing to the corpses. Yes, in fact, he's making them into kebabs and planning on just keeping them arm. But then Keith from The Office enters, says something to his friend about conning old people out of money, so he serves then human kebab meat.

But after that, he seems to stop turning the bodies into said meat, and it focuses more on him, and the oppression he encounters on a nightly basis. Now this is all well and good, but the secondary characters are laughable, and add nothing to the narrative. These are characters we are all used to, thanks to the slew of Brit Gangster movies released in the late nineties thanks to Guy Ritchie, and they instantly make the film a little star.

There are a couple of sub plots involving a teen who knows what he is doing, and a raspy voiced 'bad boy' who wants the shop, and these fall flat too.

The film did have so much potential, but it runs out of steam about halfway through.

Reviewed by Stevieboy666 7 / 10

Fancy a kebab?

Salah,a student & refugee, inherits a seaside kebab shop when his father dies during an altercation with some drunken yobs. Subjected to constant verbal (much of it racist) and physical abuse Salah ends up killing a violent customer and disposing of his body in his kebabs. He goes on to repeat this several times over. This could have been a simple kill 'em and eat 'em gore movie, it certainly wouldn't be the first. However K-Shop addresses issues such as racism, violence, alcohol abuse & greed (the ambitious & ruthless local night club owner). The movie uses real footage of drunken people fighting, being sick, exposing themselves, having sex, etc, all in public. Sadly an all too familiar sight in towns & cities across Britain come the weekends. Watching the fictional Salah bloodily butcher his victims may prove too much for some viewers but it's the real anti social behaviour caused by alcohol that is truly shocking.

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